Facial kits



Sept- 23, 1958 H. A. SPRINGER 2,853,594

FACIAL KITS Filed Feb. '7, 1957 INVENTOR. HENRY A. SPRINGER WOYRQ United States Patent FACIAL KITS Henry Springer, Cincinnati, Ohio Application February 7, 1957, Serial No. 638,816

1 Claim. (Cl. 240-4.2)

The invention relates to means adapted to focus light accurately on the face and skin of beings.

In the past considerable diificulty, inconvenience and trouble has been experienced by persons in the examination of various defects in the skin of the face and in being able to see the face properly and clearly when shaving hair, beard and the like from the face.

Also, in the past no eflicient means have been available, particularly in domiciles and places of abode, to focus light rays at the will of the user on his face. This is so because for skin lesions of the face, the patient or man must carry out various manual maneuvers and free the skin pores of excessive secretion as in acne vulgars. To accomplish this purpose effectively, and with minimum trauma to the skin, the light rays must accurately strike an area of the skin so that manual pressure required to be applied to the skin pores to accomplish the desired results may be made at proper angles to produce the least amount of hypermia to the skin. 7

Therefore, an important object of the invention is to provide simple, economical, efficient and practical means to focus light rays on each side of the face whereby the man, or other person, can very clearly see and visualize any part of the face.

Other objects of the invention are to provide effective means to enable a person to clearly see any area or portion of his face in formation; to provide means to enable a person to clearly see any area or portion on the back of his neck or head; to produce a light that will focus light rays on the skin without excessive glare into the eyes of the individual; and to produce a light that will focus light rays on the skin without too much diffusion as is produced by a frosted electric light globe or bulb.

Further and other objects of the invention will be apparent from a consideration and study of the accompanying specification, claim, and drawings.

The invention consists in the combination of the elements, arrangement of parts and in the details of the construction, as hereinafter claimed.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front view of the receptacle, showing elements therein;

Fig. 2 is a top view of the same, with the top removed;

Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 3-3 in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a section taken on line 4-4 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a bottom view of a casing, and a horizontal section taken of a light bulb socket.

In the preferred construction of the invention, I provide the rectangular receptacle 1 comprising the horizontal top 2, the horizontal bottom 3, the vertical rear or back 4 and the vertical ends 5 and 6.

Suitably fixed to the ends 5 and 6 and to the back, as by welding 6', is the horizontal shelf 7, having a cut-away area 7'. In the shelf 7 is the holes 8 and 9 positioned near the ends 5 and 6, respectively. Suitably fixed in the holes 8 and 9, respectively, are the usual hubs 10 and 11 integrally connected with the usual electric bulb sock- Q ets 12 and 13 having screwed therein the usual electric light bulbs or lamps 14 and 15 engaged transversely of the casings 20 and 21. Received around the sockets 12 and 13, respectively, and movable thereon are the L- shaped spring fingers 16 and 17 having their outer ends fixed to each other and extending upwardly and forming thelegs 18 and 19. Suitably fixed to the upper ends of the legs 18 and 19, respectively, are the cylindrical casings 20 and 21.

The rear ends of the casings 20 and 21 are provided with the plane-convex lenses 22 and 23 rigidly sustained therein, as the periphery of the design of the lenses ef fects close engagement with the interior surface of the casings and positioned forwardly of the bulbs 14 and 15.

The casings are movably or pivotally sustained onthe sockets 12 and 1310 enable the operator to adjustably set the same to different positions to segregate the light rays administered therethrough from the lens for appropriately directing the same as upon selected areas of the face or the individual 24.

. The sockets 12 and 13, bulbs 14 and 15; casings 20 and 21; and the lenses 22 and 23 comprise the spot lights 25 and 26. I

The convex sides of the lenses 22 and 23 are forwardly of the casings and the fiat or perpendicular sides of the lenses are rearwardly of the casings.

Fixed, as by the screws 27, to the upper surface of the bottom 3, of the rectangular receptacle 1, is the legs 28 and 29 whose upper ends are bent inwardly to form the pins 30 and 31 which are pivotally received in the cylindrical frame 32 having received therein the mirror 33 facing outwardly of the receptacle 1. The mirror may be adjusted by manually pivoting the frame 32 on the pins 30 and 31.

To illuminate the electric bulbs 14 and 15 electric current is supplied from suitable outside source of electric supply through the electric conductors 34-35 and 36-37, respectively, connected with the sockets and bulbs.

The operation of the invention is as follows: The individual 38, who desires to shave the hair or beard ofl his face, or who desires to inspect and free the skin pores of foreign matter, positions himself in front of the receptacle 1 and with the mirror 33 in properly adjusted position so that he can see the reflection of his face 39 in the mirror. Then he manipulates the casings 20 and 21 until the light rays from the bulbs 14 and 15, which pass through the lenses 22 and 23, illuminate desired areas of his face. Then he can plainly and clearly see his reflection in the mirror 33, after which he may proceed to shave or perform other required operations on his face.

An advantage of the invention is that by the combination of the elements consisting of the mirror 33; the plane-convex lenses 22 and 23, the movable casings 20 and 21, and the bulbs 14 and 15, the individual 34 can readily and conveniently direct concentrated light rays upon selected areas of his face and he will see these areas clearly which are reflected from the mirror. If the user desires more than the usual illumination on a selected single area of his face he can conveniently pivot or move the casings 20 and 21 so as to direct the light rays from both bulbs onto a single selected area on his face.

Another advantage of the invention is that if the user desires to inspect his neck or rear side of his head he can hold a second mirror in his hand and by manipulating it he can direct rays from the mirror 33 to see selected areas on the back of his neck or head.

Particularly an advantage of the invention is that a concentrated and brilliant spot of light having a relatively high light meter reading can be readily and safely directed in, toward and on selected areas whereas in the past inspections, examinations and shaving of the face of an individual have been performed in relatively dim illumination.

I have devised and invented what I believe to be a novel and useful device which embodies the features of; advantages above enumerated. And while I have shown and described preferred embodiment of my invention which will give in actual practice satisfactory results for the intended purposes, it is to be understood that the[ same is susceptible of modifications in various particulars.

I wish to emphasize the fact that I desire to in-' clude in this application all equivalents and substitutes that may be fairly considered to come within the scope movable on said socket and having their outer ends fixed to each other and extending upwardly forming a leg, a cylindrical casing fixed to said leg, a lano-convex lens in said casing being adjacent said lamp and adapted to pass light rays from said lamp, a manually adjustable mirror fixed to the bottom of said receptacle and adapted to reflect the face of the user, said casing capable of being manually adjusted to direct rays of light from said lamp, through said lens and upon a selected area of said face adapted to be reflected by said mirror into the eyes of said user.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,680,062 Newton Aug. 7, 1928 2,536,203 Meyers Jan. 2, 1951 2,552,389 Aranberg et al. May 8, 1951 2,677,751 Marchand May 4, 1954 FOREIGN PATENTS 645,642 Germany .c...'. May 13, 1937 

